BURRAMINE Sports Club has brought the curtain down on 62 years of tradition by cancelling its gift meeting.

The club held its first professional footrace at the Yarrawonga Showgrounds in 1952, but the event had its origins five years earlier with an athletics carnival held in a farm paddock to raise money to buy a new set of football jumpers.

The decision to not hold a gift meeting in March next year was made at the club’s annual meeting on Wednesday night.